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 PrintableVersion Beyond the edgeOne woman's journey out of post-natal depression and anxietyBeing honestBEYOND THE EDGE Beyond the Edge is the compelling account of how a Christian woman falls into terrible post-natal depression and anxiety and of her struggle to recover from it. In her introduction, Hazel states that her hope is ‘that through sharing my story you too will see that, no matter how bad or wild and messy your life is, all is not lost: God can bring new life out of rough places’. It was the cardiac arrest of her ten-week-old daughter that made Hazel Rolston feel she had been pushed ‘beyond the edge’. While the first chapter graphically describes the first weeks of the life of Katherine, culminating in her cardiac arrest, the next few outline Hazel’s life up to that point. In the next chapters Hazel gives an honest and lucid account of how she felt: ‘I felt…as if I was crawling in rough terrain with my head bumping along the ground, bleeding and bruised…’ The temptation to suicide was strong. Hazel is brutally honest about how her faith was challenged at this time and also about the lack of comfort found within the church at times. This was written not in a vindictive way but simply because it is of wider relevance. Hazel paints the arduous journey back from depression and shows the medical help, family support and prayers that enabled her to make the journey. She offers no easy formula for escape, though she often longed for instant healing, but affirms that the key to maintaining faith is to ‘hang on to what you know to be true, even though you do not see or feel it personally!’ It is a very readable book. I would recommend it to all Christians, encouraging them to be more honest about their own weakness and dependence on God’s grace and more compassionate to those who have gone ‘beyond the edge’. Lois Collier, © Evangelicals Now - June 2008 |
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